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there because he sailed back First Class.) During 1932 and 33 he served as a ship’s engineer
making numerous trans-Atlantic voyages on an Italian liner between Genoa and New York. After
his period with Lloyd’s British, he moved to Bristol and joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company
plastics division.

187 Ivor LLOYD JONES (1894-1982) (Inducted 17.2.1936; resigned 19.3.1951 because of illness.)
Bank Manager in charge of the Dudley High Street branch of National Provincial Bank from 1935
to 1949, and who lived in Tansley Hill Road. Little else is known about him because his name is
too common. He appears to have been in Kings Norton before coming to Dudley and to have
died in Pwhelli, Caernarvonshire.

188 Henry Alfred MARLER (1894- ?) (Inducted 16.3.1936; member at June 1939 but not June 1940.)
Haulage Contractor. Director, with his younger brothers Joseph and Albert, in the firm Marler
Bros. Limited, heavy haulage contractors of Northfield Road, Netherton. He left the club about
1939 after the firm moved to ‘Perry’s Lake’, Rowley Regis. However he was also licensee of the
Bulls Head public house in Wollaston, Stourbridge from 1938 to 1949. He was brought up in the
Blackheath area and at the age of 16 was already working as a ‘leather merchant’. In May 1920,
aged 25, not long married and by now a motor engineer, he sailed to Canada with the intention
of permanently emigrating with his wife. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law. However
barely six months later the two of them returned home to Dudley for good.

— John Henry POTTER (1888-1941) Director of Moule & Co. Ltd, Tyre Dealers of King Street, Dudley,
and a Dudley Councillor was approved by the Membership Committee c.4.1936 but does not
appear to have actually been elected. Thomas Moule was already a member.

189 Frederick (‘Fred’) George COZENS (1899-1985) (Inducted 20.4.1936; President 1945-46; left
17.11.1952.) Managing Director of Willmot Trucks & Products Ltd, Ivanhoe Works, Scotts Green,
Dudley and its associated company Tuglift Ltd, Waverley Works, Holly Hall. He grew up in the
Camden area of London. At 15 he started work as an apprentice with Adam Hilger Ltd, optical
and scientific instrument makers of Camden, continuing his studies in the evening at the nearby
Cleland Technical School and Working Men’s College. His training was interrupted from 1918 to
early 1920 by War Service in the Royal Flying Corps. He returned to Hilger’s for 6 months to
complete his apprenticeship. Then he set up his own business, at the age of 20, as Frederick G
Cozens, Scientific and Mechanical Engineer, making and repairing optical instruments and
machines, developing patents, and maintaining plant and equipment for The British Metal Spray
Co. Ltd of Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. In 1922, aged just 22, he moved to Dudley and became
Works Engineer with Metallisation Limited of Peartree Lane. The firm specialised in metal
spraying but also had a steel truck manufacturing department. In about 1930 he joined the
newly formed Willmot Truck Company and remained in charge for the next 35 years. For most
of this period he lived at Pedmore, Stourbridge but in 1964 bought Hope Court at Hope Bagot
near Ludlow, with its 28 acres of parkland, herd of Chinese water deer and flock of wild Soay
sheep. He sold up in 1979 and died a few years later at Poole, Dorset.
Frederick Cozens was a prolific inventor with numerous patents to his name both at
Metallisation and Willmot. When he became an Associate Member of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers in 1927 his sponsors included F C Briggs, already a member of this club
(#35) and W E Ballard who later became a member (#233).

190 Ernest Geoffrey HELLIWELL (1898-1958) (Inducted 20.4.1936; resigned 16.5.1938.) Fender and
car and aircraft parts manufacturer. He was a Director of Helliwell’s Limited, a firm started by
his father to make metal hearth fenders, kerbs and sheet-metal work at the Tunnel Foundry,
Fountain Street, Dudley and later also in Oakeywell Street. From the 1920s the Tunnel Foundry
concentrated on motor windscreens. He probably started with the company after war service